The matrix of language : contemporary linguistic anthropology /
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Boulder, Colo. :
Westview Press,
1996
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Table of Contents:
- Part One: Learning, language, learning culture. What no bedtime story means: narrative skills at home and school / Shirley Brice Heath
- Detective stories at dinnertime: problem-solving through co-narration / Elinor Ochs, Ruth Smith, and Carolyn Taylor
- Hard words: a functional basis for Kaluli discourse / Steven Feld and Bambi B. Schieffelin. Part Two: Gender, power, and discourse. A cultural approach to male-female miscommunication / Daniel N. Maltz and Ruth A Borker
- Norm-makers, norm-breakers: uses of speech by men and women in a Malagasy community / Elinor Keenan (Ochs)
- The whole woman: sex and gender differences in variation / Penelope Eckert. Part Three: Genre, style, performance. Biography of a sentence: a Burmese proverb / A.L. Becker
- "Any man who keeps more'n one hound'll lie to you": a contextual study of expressive lying / Richard Bauman
- Carne, Carnales, and the carnivalesque: Bakhtinian Batos, disorder, and narrative discourses / Jose E. Limon. Part Four: Language as social practice. Grog and gossip in Bhatgaon: style and substance in Fiji Indian conversation / Donald Brenneis
- Reflections on a meeting: structure, language, and the polity in a small-scale society / Fred R. Myers
- When talk isn't cheap: language and political
- economy / Judith T. Irvine
- Monoglot "standard" in America: standardization and metaphors of linguistic hegemony / Michael Silverstein
- The grammar of consciousness and the consciousness of grammar / Jane H. Hill